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Title:

A Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulator For Offshore Machinery Control System Testing

Authors:

Johnny Aarseth, Alf Helge Lien, Oyvind Bunes, Yingguang Chu, Vilmar AEsoy

Published in:

 

(2014).ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti, Marco Castellani  European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014

 

ISBN: 978-0-9564944-8-1

 

28th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation,

Brescia, Italy, May 27th – 30th, 2014

Citation format:

Johnny Aarseth, Alf Helge Lien, Oyvind Bunes, Yingguang Chu, Vilmar AEsoy (2014). A Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulator For Offshore Machinery Control System Testing, ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti, Marco Castellani  European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014-0057

DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2014-0057

Abstract:

The paper presents a concept to develop a simulator for testing of the control systems of automated handling systems for offshore vessels. The concept is based on using Bond Graph for numeric modelling of physical systems, then implementing the model on a platform which can run and visualize simulations and communicate with the target control system in real time. A simulator is implemented and tested for a Launch and Recovery System (LARS) from Rolls-Royce Marine. The intention for this simulator is to provide a platform for development and testing of the control system without having a full scale physical system available, as that can be both practically difficult and an expensive way of performing testing. The simulator can also serve as a platform operational training as well as testing and monitoring the performance of the machinery system effectively, in particularly the characteristics of the hydraulic components during runtime.

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